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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 8947338" data-attributes="member: 6684958">A lot of this had to do with communication back in the Time Before Time.&nbsp; Way Back When:A person would discover D&amp;D when a friend said &quot;Hey you want to try this game?&quot;&nbsp; And they would.&nbsp; They would join a small group of local gamers.&nbsp; But that small group of four or five or so gamers were all the gamers they knew in the whole world.&nbsp; Sure, they might hear that Joe runs a game at the Pizza Pit in Homervile 35 miles away or maybe somebodies brother used to have a game.&nbsp; Most gamers only played the game a couple years, often in school, with an average of five years or so.&nbsp; Then they would just drop it.&nbsp; They often knew less then ten other gamers, nearly all of them from their group. They very likely only ever had one DM (what the cool kids would call a Forever DM today).&nbsp; So they never met anyone who even had an idea about playing the game differently then the single way their group did.Now yes, there were a couple places that had hundreds of gamers living only a mile from each other and they were talking and interacting every day so they played an endless Menagerie of different games.&nbsp; But that was not typical for most gamers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 8947338, member: 6684958"] A lot of this had to do with communication back in the Time Before Time. Way Back When: A person would discover D&D when a friend said "Hey you want to try this game?" And they would. They would join a small group of local gamers. But that small group of four or five or so gamers were all the gamers they knew in the whole world. Sure, they might hear that Joe runs a game at the Pizza Pit in Homervile 35 miles away or maybe somebodies brother used to have a game. Most gamers only played the game a couple years, often in school, with an average of five years or so. Then they would just drop it. They often knew less then ten other gamers, nearly all of them from their group. They very likely only ever had one DM (what the cool kids would call a Forever DM today). So they never met anyone who even had an idea about playing the game differently then the single way their group did. Now yes, there were a couple places that had hundreds of gamers living only a mile from each other and they were talking and interacting every day so they played an endless [I]Menagerie[/I] of different games. But that was not typical for most gamers. [/QUOTE]

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